Performance Improvements in Azure Cosmos DB Kafka Connector

January 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023 01/24/23
authorsRicky Diep, Marcelo Fonseca, Sergiy Smyrnov
Overview Azure Cosmos DB Kafka connector had been updated recently and several new features were delivered as part of the v1.6.0 release based on the feedback and requirements of several customers implementing it as part of their application modernization journey. In this blog post – I will share details about those improvements and ...

Azure Cosmos DB & Power BI Incremental Refresh

January 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023 01/24/23
authorsAlp Kaya, John Dohoney
Abstract Data Collection has become a daunting task with the ever-growing amount of data.  The growth of data makes reporting tasks an operational challenge due to the processing time requirements imposed by technical limitations in many business intelligence tools. The paper outlines the incremental refresh capability of Microsoft’s Power...

NoSQL vs. relational: Which database should you use for your app?

January 17, 2023 Jan 17, 2023 01/17/23
Michal Toiba
Microsoft recently announced the introduction of Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, a distributed relational database, making Azure the first cloud platform to offer support for both relational and NoSQL (non-relational) data in a single database service. This means Azure Cosmos DB developers now have ultimate flexibility when building cloud-...

Building and deploying Java apps with Spring Cloud and Azure Cosmos DB

January 12, 2023 Jan 12, 2023 01/12/23
Rory Preddy
On a recent episode of Azure Cosmos DB Live TV, I discussed building Java apps with Azure Cosmos DB and Spring Cloud. The focus of the discussion was how to use Spring Cloud Azure, an open-source project that provides seamless Spring integration with Azure services and gives developers a Spring-idiomatic way to connect and consume Azure ...

Azure Cosmos DB API for NoSQL – The Java Ecosystem

January 10, 2023 Jan 10, 2023 01/10/23
Theo van Kraay
The largest external customers of Azure Cosmos DB API for NoSQL, running some of the biggest and most mission critical workloads in Azure, are primarily Java users! In this blog we'll give you a quick run-down of all our supported Java-based client libraries, including our battle-tested core Java SDK, its key supported features, and where ...

Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB v5 now in limited preview!

December 20, 2022 Dec 20, 2022 12/20/22
Shweta Nayak
We are excited to announce that the Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB v5 is now in Limited Preview! The latest v5 Preview version supports much anticipated features such as distributed ACID transactions, higher limits for unsharded collections and for shards themselves, improved performance for aggregation pipelines and complex queries, and more...

The Azure Cosmos DB Conf call for speakers is now open!

December 14, 2022 Dec 14, 2022 12/14/22
Jay Gordon
Azure Cosmos DB Conf is back for 2023 and the call for papers is now open!  Azure Cosmos DB Conf is a free virtual developer event happening on March 28th, 2023, organized by Microsoft with support from the greater Azure Cosmos DB community. This is the third year we’re holding the conference, with sessions delivered by both Microsoft ...

Under the hood of the new Azure Functions extension for Azure Cosmos DB

December 13, 2022 Dec 13, 2022 12/13/22
Matias Quaranta
The Azure Cosmos DB Azure Functions extension version 4 is now GA, and it packs a load of improvements and new features. The goal of this post is to go deep into the technical details about the extension changes and guide you to take advantage of them. Source code As a starting point, everything I'll be talking about in the article is ...

AltGraph – Graph workloads with Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL

December 8, 2022 Dec 8, 2022 12/8/22
Chris Joakim
AltGraph is the idea of implementing “graph workloads” not with a graph database, but with the more general-purpose Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL (formerly known as the “SQL API”).  Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL is highly performant and offers the best integration with the rest of Azure.  It also offers the lowest learning curve since most ...